K. Deb et M. Goyal, A FLEXIBLE OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURE FOR MECHANICAL COMPONENT DESIGN BASED ON GENETIC ADAPTIVE SEARCH, Journal of mechnical design, 120(2), 1998, pp. 162-164
A flexible algorithm for solving nonlinear engineering design optimiza
tion problems involving zero-one, discrete, and continuous variables i
s presented The algorithm restricts its search only to the permissible
values of the variables, thereby reducing the search effort in conver
ging near the optimum solution. The efficiency and ease of application
of the proposed method is demonstrated by solving four different mech
anical design problems chosen from the optimization literature. These
results are encouraging and suggest the use of the technique to other
more complex engineering design problems.